Merry Christmas

What a fun holiday season!! William really got into the Christmas spirit this year. For starters, he didn't freak out when he saw Santa this year...that was a relief! On the way to see Santa, I asked William what was he going to ask for, he said a lolly pop. Goodness, if I knew that was all he wanted, I could have saved some money! We worked on his requests, soon he wouldn't stop asking for Transformers and Thomas.

Christmas Eve with the Ladimir's is always fun. Our traditional lasagna dinner followed by church and some pre-Christmas present opening is something we have been doing for as long as I can remember. This year my cousin Diana and I decided to give my Dad a break and help out with a few pans of lasagna. Under the watchful eye of "Tony Soprano" we got the thumbs up on our two pans! This was also the first year we decided to do a White Elephant Christmas with the adults!! It worked out great, I think we will be doing this for years to follow!! Finally, putting William to bed Christmas Eve was a task, he got out of bed at least 4 or 5 times hoping to catch Santa in the act. Chris and I were exhausted the next day!

The "Cook"!!

My cousin Diana and I with our pans of lasagna, please note we tried to put our initials in it with ricotta cheese!!!

Me and my mom!

My old Roxy Bear, Robert, Mom, and Chi Chi aka Christian!

Uncle Christian was over-joyed with his head phones.

Chris was really excited about this blender for his shakes....

that is until Uncle Robert stole it!! That's the way White Elephant works my friend!!

Christmas morning was rough. William jumped in our bed at 2:30 and about 4:30 was getting restless. Finally at 7:30 we went downstairs to open presents. I sent my mom an approved list of toys hoping that maybe she would only choose 3, well she got all of them. I've come to the conclusion that she has a serious shopping problem, I guess that's where I get it! William had a blast with all his new toys. His favorite was a Playskool helmet that has a handle bar that makes cop noises and drives like a motorcycle and his Hulk gloves; which he decided to try out to wake up Uncle Robert. Talk about hilarious!!

Goodness he's adorable!

The HULK!

Could you imagine waking up to this...what a sport!

Darn tape...

Perfectly lining up all his transformers!

It was a wonderful Christmas, we are so blessed to have such wonderful family and friends in our lives!

Football Season

I don't know about anyone else out there, but I can not wait for football season to end!! My home has been invaded by Fantasy Football, stats, nonstop calls about picks, who's playing who, what players are on the injured list and so on.... All I want to do on Sunday's is curl up on the couch and watch Lifetime movies until the tissues run out...But we are in the home stretch...thank goodness!!

Celebrate

Well it is time to celebrate!!! William went to school today for the first time in "big-boy" underwear!! We have been struggling to get potty training down but it wasn't exactly working out the way I expected. He does excellent at school and other outings, but he refuses to potty at home. I have no idea why, but it is still a work in progress. We will see when I pick William up from school if he is still wearing the same pants from this morning.

We also have another reason to celebrate, Chris got into Texas State business school!!! YAY, congrats to him!! Hopefully he will be able to take classes at the Round Rock campus, it's much closer!!

Catching up....again

I'll do a quick recap of our November since I haven't updated in forever.
William wrapped up his T-ball season...with a VICTORY...well actually at the YMCA everyone wins. He received a cute little medal. Over all T-ball was super fun. The kids did so well towards the end of the season...they were finally listening and throwing the ball fairly accurately. Occasionally William would play with the dirt, but I have to say I did see improvements. Next is soccer...stay tuned!

This month we also went to visit Chris' parents in Dallas and we had a blast! Twice in one month, everyone was so happy to spend some quality time together. We saw Madagascar 2 (HILARIOUS) and William received his early Christmas present from Nana and Yaya...lots of movies!!!

When we came home from Dallas, something happened...Chris and I had a wild hair and began organizing, cleaning the garage and decorating for Christmas. I don't think in all my years of being married we decorated before Thanksgiving. But it was fun...our biggest debate was were to put the tree, this discussion started last month. I just love the holidays!!!

Our Thanksgiving was wonderful. My close friend Tracy joined us this year, it was so wonderful to have her here! It's never a dull moment with the Ladimir's. Lot's of turkey followed by a ton of other food that I should not have eaten, and finally the evening ended with everyone unbuttoning their pants and rubbing our bellies...awww the holidays! Just think we can do it all over again in a month....yay (sarcastic)!